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Minnesota blocks gambling sites

May 24, 2009

The state of Minnesota found a way how the block its citizens to access the online gambling sites.
The state’s Department of Public Safety asked about 11 Internet service providers (ISP) to prevent the access to hundreds of websites that are associated with online gambling.

The Minnesota government explained this action by citing a federal law, which conditions service providers to deny access to any telecommunications services used for gambling.
According to John Morris, who is a general counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington D.C., the providers of the internet service are not network operators. Probably the Minnesota action won’t stand in a court of law, because it seems to be unlikely that a court would accept an ISP to discharge with Minnesota’s request. His opinion was reported in the Associated Press.

The co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, John Palfrey, commented that the government can not force ISP to filter certain sites. It simply doesn’t work, because either too many or too few sites are blocked and it’s easy to circumvent the filters, so the result is kind of meaningless.
There have been already some companies that asked to block iGaming access, but now many of them are trying to rethink the request. One of those companies is also AT&T Inc.

Minnesota officials are not giving up and they are blocking even more websites, beyond the 200 they already blocked.

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